A teenager who travelled to Ibiza and Amsterdam to cover up the death of his mother's lover has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice.

Christopher Redshaw, aged 18, of Newbridge Road, Bedworth, denied charges including perverting the course of justice by concealing the death of his mother's lover George Tweedie, aged 25, during a five-day trial at Warwick Crown Court.

He had accepted lying to Mr Tweedie's family and posting letters to Mr Tweedie's mother, Bettie Tweedie.

But he claimed he did not realise Mr Tweedie had been killed in the lounge of the house he shared with Redshaw's mother before his body was "crudely cremated" in an abandoned car in the Peak District.

No-one has been charged with killing Mr Tweedie.

At an earlier hearing his mother Karen Redshaw, aged 37, of Newdegate Road, Bedworth, and his step-father Colin Redshaw, aged 38, of Newtown Road, Bedworth, pleaded guilty to charges including perverting the course of justice.

The court heard how Mr Tweedie - who met Karen Redshaw through an internet chatroom - was killed in early May by a heavy blow to the face.

When asked about whether there was blood on the carpet on the morning after Mr Tweedie had been killed, the 18-year-old Redshaw said: "It had all been cleared up."

Judge Martin Coates warned the jury to "ignore any feelings of sympathy" for Christopher, or Mrs Tweedie, whose family were "tor-mented by the attempts to hide the truth".

The jury took three hours to come to a unanimous guilty verdict.

The teenager was refused bail. Judge Coates said: "He has been convicted of a serious course of conduct and I think he knowingly involved himself at an early stage."

He added: "I believe he was involved from that point, and I cannot get away from the torment he inflicted on that family."

Christopher Redshaw was remanded in custody until he could be sentenced at a later date with his mother and step father.